On Thu 14 Nov 2019, L A Walsh via rsync wrote:
> Have a directory with a bunch rpms in it, mostly x86_64.
>
> Have another directory with a bunch, mostly 'noarch'.
>
> Some of the noarch files are already in the x86_64 dir
> and don't want to overwrite them. They are on the same
> physical disk, so really, just want the new 'noarch' files
> hardlinked into the destination.
>
> sitting in the noarch dir, I tried:
> rsync -auv --ignore-existing \
> --link-dest=/tumbleweed/. . /tumbleweed/.
This is not going to do anything useful, as you're telling it to look in
/tumbleweed/ for files that are to be placed in /tumbleweed/ i.e. the
exact same location. It's not going to do
ln /tumbleweed/foo/bar /tumbleweed/foo/bar
which is effectively what you're telling it to do.
You need to specify the source directory as the link-dest directory.
Paul
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